Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1887-12-02
ST. JOHNS SPEECH.
The Audience at Battery d Enter
tanned by Extravagant Asser-
tiOns and Funny Sayings.
A Poor Woman Heavily Fined For
Playfully Throwing q Pancake
at the Presidential Party,
And an $4,000 Diamond Belt Pre-
sented to the Champion Slug
ger of the World,
Sentiment and Sarcasm.

Sentiment and Sarcasm
CHICAGO, Dec. l.-"Home and Liberty,
wa> the burden of speeches at Battery D
this morning. The principal subject under
discussion was the appointment of dele
gates to the prohibition nominating con-
vention. A resolution was passed "that
| the representation in the national conven-
tion of 1888 shall be on the basis of twice
as many delegates from each state and
| territory as represented in congress- theS.
delegates to be elected by such methods as
may be decided upon by the state commit
tees" The only, incident of general in
terest which took place was when heated
discussion took place between Mr. Chaplin
OF Wisconsin and the national committee
on the question OF the representation at the
national convention next June. 1t was
finally agreed that the following PROPOSE
ton should be referred to the national
committee: THAT the basis of representa-
ton be one from each congressional dis
| trict and one for each 800 voters" When
taken up in secret session by the commit
tee Chapins proposition was rejected and
the order remains as at first adopted. Mr.
| Chaplin, nevertheless, threatens to make an
| effort to have the rank and file of the pro-
! hibiti0nists unite and elect their delegates
for the coming convention upon the basis
| suggested by him and endorsed by the con-
ference to-day. Mr.. Chapin's idea is that
| the delegates thus elected should contest
! the seats of the present officers when the
party assemblies at Indianapolis. The
| conference of the national committee was
brought to close tonight by grand mass
meeting at Battery D. The great hall was
comfortably filled and the utmost enthu-
siasm prevailed. Mr.. j. B. Habby, who
once ran for the goyernorship of Illinois on
the prohibition ticket, presided The
speakers were General Clinton b Fiske of
New Jersey, Mrs. Mary +. Lathrop and
Ex-Governor st. John of Kansas.
ST. JOINS SPEECH.
Mr.. st. John said "For nearly forty
years this country has been under the con-
troll of the two old parties, and what is it's
legal, social, moral and political condition
to-day? Let us see. We hang and inn
prison anarchists and at the same time
legalize, protect and perpetrate 100000
| saloons, the hot beds where anarchy is pro.
pagated and thieves fattened, and while
ard maker goes to the legislature to enact
laws for the people. Children cry for bread
and the father is sent home penniless and
drunk. While the mother is powerless to
protect her home and boy with ballot,
che saloonkeeper destroys both with his
/
people to the house of God the brass band
leads the way to the Sunday horse race.
prize fight, base ball game and beer garden.
jeff Davis in his dotage, without a ballot,
is denounced as a traitor and the ex-rebel
guerilla Moseby in the prime of his man
hood with ballOt) is given foreign mis-
sion. The right 1f a free ballot is de-
manded for the black men of the south
while white lnel are burned and hanged in
effigy for exercising that right in the north
Ministers of the gospel were prosecuted
and driven from the pulpit for preaching
and voting against African slavery forty
years ago and they have been prosecuted,
boycotted and driven from the pulpit for
preaching and voting against the rum
slavery OF to-day. LOVejOy fell Il martyr t.
freedom in the fight against the slavery
curse. liaddOck and Gambre and four
others have fallen martyrs to our homes in
this struggle against the saloon curse. In
the face OF political platforms declaring for
fair count the black man is counted ont
in Mississippi and South Carolina in his
race for congress and the white man
counted out in Michigan and ohio in his
fight for prohibition While heavy import
duties is placed upon foreign goods. the
skum of foreign labor enters free. Pro-
lection for the blacksmths hammer but
free trade for the blacksnithS muscle
American ships are practically driven from
the seas. Ours Is country without navy.
1 uc pcODlt Is lOCkttl up Ill tne
vaults of the treasury and half a dozen
mOnopOllsts are controlling our highways
to the markets of the world For every
dollar expended to educate and
make strong for the right through the
influence Of our public schools, fifteen
dollars are expended to tear down and de-
strOy through the influence Of the public
saloons. Ignorant, vile, profane, vicious.
dishonest, blear-eyed Dummers and tramps
are allowed to vote because they are men:
but our mothers, wives and daughters
educated, refined, honest, pure, noble and
true--are not allowed to vote because they
are women. While in one breath bribe-
taking is condemned. in the next a bribery
bureau with political anarchist at its
head is unblushingly admitted to be a part
Of the political machinery of great
party.
While poor woman is fined heavily for
playfully pitching a pancake at a presi-
Dental party, an $1,000 diamond mounted
gold belt is given to John l.. Sullivan As
the champion slugger of the world. And
yet the people are asked to perpetuate the
ditiOn of things has been brought about
And why? Surely not because either of
them stand pledged to a higher standard
Of morality, the suppression of the liquor
traffic and greater protection to our homes
and our boys, for no such pledges are made
by them. Then what is the the result of
voting for such parties? Why, simply 10
continue the old order of things and per-
petuate the sectional, political and race
prejudices of two old parties which have
no lssne between them except todeterIEine
which shall have the offices and control the
public plunder.h - a.a h